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Breastfeeding for emergency preparedness focus of WHO

This week is world breastfeeding week. According to the WHO, breastfeeding could save millions of lives, especially in the event of a public emergency. Breastfeeding is not a lifestyle – it is a way to reduce healthcare spending, promote women’s health, and ensure a lifetime of better health for breastfed infants and children. This year, breastfeeding as a part of emergency preparedness is a focus of the World Health Organization.

World breastfeeding is an annual campaign that takes place August 1 to August 7, designed to educate, promote, and encourage breastfeeding throughout the world. This year’s focus is on emergency preparedness and the importance of breastfeeding. Mother’s milk is more plentiful than bottled formula and water and could sustain vulnerable infants and children in the event of a local or national emergency.

Mothers who breastfeed provide a lifetime of health benefits that continues to adulthood through enhanced immunity, less risk of allergy, love, and early bonding. Optimal nutrition comes from mother’s milk. Read more

Grabbing a short snooze can give you the lift you need to tackle the rest of your day — physically and mentally — but the perks don’t stop there. Research suggests that napping benefits almost every aspect of human wellness, from lowering your risk for heart disease and repairing cells to lifting your mood and stamina to knocking down stress and making you more productive. All this can translate to living longer, staying more active, and looking younger.

What are the keys to being a power napper? Follow these three simple rules:

* Set aside 30 minutes total — 10 minutes to fall asleep and 20 minutes for the actual nap. Use an alarm.
* Take off your shoes and get comfortable; try to nap in a reclined position on a couch or in your car (but be safe); avoid direct sunlight.
* Avoid napping past 3 p.m. If you nap too late in the day, you can disrupt your nighttime sleep.

Not a napper? Napping isn’t for everyone, so see how it works for you.

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It’s not just in your head. There really is a bumper crop of baby bumps out there, from the famously fertile, like Heidi Klum, who’s flirting with her fourth set of stretch marks in five years, to the infamous Nadya “Octomom” Suleman, who earlier this year bore eight babies at once even though she already had six other kids at home that she could barely afford to take care of.

In 2007 alone, American women birthed more than 4.3 million babies—the highest number ever. More than a quarter of those were to women having their third or fourth child, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. And despite the infertility freak-out the entire country seems to be currently engaged in, only a small number of these babies—perhaps 100,000—resulted from medical interventions such as in vitro fertilization, says Jamie Grifo, M. D., Ph. D., director of the division of reproductive endocrinology at the NYU School of Medicine. Read more

“Fa­sh­ion is som­­eth­ing th­a­t goes in one y­ea­r a­nd­ ou­t th­e oth­er”.
—D­en­i­s­e K­la­hn­

S­o­ here i­s­ a­ co­mp­lete gui­d­e tha­t wi­ll help­ y­o­u get a­cqua­i­n­ted­ wi­th wo­m­a­n fa­s­h­io­n 2009 tre­nds­ that can­ help­ you to m­ake ri­ght addi­ti­on­s­ i­n­ your wardrob­es­:

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